Easter is the annual Christian celebration of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore, it is a period of intense liturgical activity within the various Christian denominations. It starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday, although their celebration usually begins in several places on the previous Friday (Good Friday) and is considered part of the Easter Sunday. The date of the celebration is variable (between March and April depending on the year) as it depends on the lunar calendar.
Easter is preceded by Lent, which ends in the Passion Week where the Eucharist is celebrated on Holy Thursday, the Crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday and Resurrection at the Easter Vigil in the Holy Saturday night to Sunday commemorates Easter. During the Easter take place numerous examples of popular religiosity throughout the world, highlighting the processions and representations of the Pasión.
In most Christian countries and especially Catholics, Passover revolves around the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Spain, during Holy Week (the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday), religious processions are held in almost every city. In countries like the United States, the celebration of Easter dispenses great religious deployments, although some celebrates going to mass. Typically in the US it is that Easter become a holiday week, but now the spring break (Spring Break) school does not necessarily coincide with Easter or Passover. In public schools, depending on the state, this holiday week will occur before, during or even after Easter. The rabbit and chocolate eggs It is customary for Easter egg hunts are organized. This is often done on Easter Sunday. Families hide plastic eggs filled with candy or a little treat, and children find them. Smaller think it's the Easter Bunny, which brings eggs or small gifts. Also parks, schools, churches and other organizations make these celebrations in which children can also make crafts like decorating cooked, or draw rabbits Easter eggs. How does the rabbit with eggs? It seems that eggs and rabbit are the result of a mixture of religious and pagan history. On the one hand, after the death and resurrection of Jesus, during Lent were forbidden to eat certain foods, including eggs. When Easter came, people celebrated by eating eggs, to get even fasting thereof. The rabbit could emerge from the legend that the cave in which Jesus was resurrected, was not only her body but also had a rabbit. The rabbit witnessed the resurrection of Jesus, and wanted to tell people. As he could not speak, he came to paint colored eggs and take them to people to understand that a miracle had occurred. This is, again, a legend, but it could be the precursor Easter rabbit and the relationship with the eggs. Over time, some countries, such as Germany, began making chocolate bunnies and eggs at Easter.
Today in some countries, such as Spain, the Easter cake, a sweet cake in the middle of which there eat a boiled egg, shell and all.
In the United States, moms cooked eggs and decorate them with children: the stain
and paint colors. Naturally, you can eat, although certainly prefer small sweet eggs.
The Roman Catholic Church is the Catholic Church more believers in the world, which are under the authority of the pope. Easter, according to the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, begins with Palm Sunday, when Jesus enters Jerusalem and is greeted with palm leaves, and ends with Holy Saturday. Passover begins after Holy Saturday. The following are the dates of the Gregorian calendar for 2016.
Palm Sunday falls on March 20.
The Easter Monday falls on March 21.
Santo falls on Tuesday and March 22.
Holy Wednesday falls on March 23..
Maundy Thursday falls on March 24.
Good Friday falls on March 25..
Holy Saturday falls on March 26.
Easter is one of the most important holidays in Ecuador; They take a variety of celebrations and ceremonies in different cities out. The most important dish of Holy Week in Ecuador is a thick soup called Fanesca. The tradition is to eat the Fanesca Santos on Thursday, as the Last Supper, but today has become a very popular dish that can be found during the whole week in many Ecuadoreans restaurants. Fanesca is prepared with dried cod and a selection of different grains and vegetables from the Ecuadorian highlands. This soup requires some preparation: you have to peel and cook the beans, soak the cod for 24 hours, grains and vegetables are cooked separately. The final part of adding all the ingredients together to cook the fanesca is actually the easiest part of the preparation. fanesca must carry at least 12 grains and vegetables, as they represent the 12 disciples, and that fish represents Jesus. There is some debate about the origin of Fanesca, some believe it originated in Ecuador during colonial times, others believe it originated in Spain (or Portugal) and was a dish introduced to Ecuador by the Spanish. They also say it could rise because the time of harvest of grains and vegetables coincided with Lent and Easter.
